What are the three fundamental factors behind trends of land use change
in China? Will increased income result in higher food production in China?
Why is it so difficult to make long-term projections for China's population
growth? What will China's one child policy do to the population's structure?
What kind of population structure is most likely to lead to continued population
growth? (momentum)

Study Questions: Where is the population concentrated in India? Why there?
How does lack of education and paid employment for women effect population
growth? How does poverty effect it? Where are decisions regarding procreation
made, and what influences that decision? How are children an asset to parents
in the developing world?

Is oil a fund or flow resource? and water? How is Oman using its oil
revenue to transform its economy? What is the relationship between water
resources and population growth? Which regions of the world are expected
to suffer catastrophically low supplies of water in the 21st century?

What are the main differences between mercantile colonialism, industrial
colonialism, and neocolonialism? Why was Africa's political independence
from colonialism not accompanied by technological and economic independence?
What is the relationship between nation and state in modern Africa, and
how has this affected the continent's development? Describe the pattern
of Africa's railroad network as an extractive infrastructure. Why are poor
tropical countries incapable of securing an adequate level of nutrition?

World cities are becoming political actors that form their own networks
of transnational relationships that are producing of a new layer of world
order. Explain. Compare the characteristics of a core and a periphery and
then describe the relationship between them. What are the economic and political
significance of national borders? How have Singapore and Hong Kong affected
the regions around them? In a world of emerging region states, what will
be the role of the national government? How has the WTO changed this role?
What are the effects of economic and political globalization? What does
it mean to develop?